What's the difference between criticism and fallax?
Criticism
Definition:
(n.) The rules and principles which regulate the practice of the critic; the art of judging with knowledge and propriety of the beauties and faults of a literary performance, or of a production in the fine arts; as, dramatic criticism.
(n.) The act of criticising; a critical judgment passed or expressed; a critical observation or detailed examination and review; a critique; animadversion; censure.
Example Sentences:
(1) The newborn with critical AS typically presents with severe cardiac failure and the infant with moderate failure, whereas children may be asymptomatic.
(2) The hypothesis that proteins are critical targets in free radical mediated cytolysis was tested using U937 mononuclear phagocytes as targets and iron together with hydrogen peroxide to generate radicals.
(3) The interaction of the antibody with both the bacterial and the tissue derived polysialic acids suggests that the conformational epitope critical for the interaction is formed by both classes of compounds.
(4) Ursodeoxycholate was the only dihydroxy bile salt which was able to solubilize phospholipid (although not cholesterol) below the critical micellar concentration.
(5) The pathology resulting from a missense mutation at residue 403 further suggests that a critical function of myosin is disrupted by this mutation.
(6) The criticism over the downgrading of the leader of the Lords was led by Lord Forsyth of Drumlean, a former Scotland secretary, who is a respected figure on the right.
(7) Anaerobes, in particular Bacteroides spp., are the predominant bacteria present in mixed intra-abdominal infections, yet their critical importance in the pathogenicity of these infections is not clearly defined.
(8) Even former Florida governor Jeb Bush, one of Trump’s chief critics, said ultimately, “anybody is better than Hillary Clinton”.
(9) Also critical to Mr Smith's victory was the decision over lunch of the MSF technical union's delegation to abstain on the rule changes.
(10) Critics say he is unelectable as prime minister and will never be able to implement his plans, but he has nonetheless pulled attention back to an issue that many thought had gone away for good.
(11) The high incidence of infant astigmatism has implications for critical periods in human visual development and for infant acuity.
(12) It isn't share ownership but the way people are managed that's critical.
(13) GlaxoSmithKline was unusually critical of the decision by Nice, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, and also the Scottish Medicines Consortium, to reject its drug belimumab (brand name Benlysta) in final draft guidance.
(14) The present studies indicated that the critical level at which HbCO influenced VO2 max was approximately 4.3%.
(15) Brewdog backs down over Lone Wolf pub trademark dispute Read more The fast-growing Scottish brewer, which has burnished its underdog credentials with vocal criticism of how major brewers operate , recently launched a vodka brand called Lone Wolf.
(16) Last week the WHO said the outbreak had reached a critical point, and announced a $200m (£120m) emergency fund.
(17) Critical in this understanding are the subtle changes that occur in the individual patient, reflecting the natural history of the disease or response to its treatment.
(18) That’s a criticism echoed by Democrats in the Senate, who issued a report earlier this month criticising Republicans for passing sweeping legislation in July to combat addiction , the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (Cara), but refusing to fund it.
(19) He's called out for his lack of imagination in a stinging review by a leading food critic (Oliver Platt) and - after being introduced to Twitter by his tech-savvy son (Emjay Anthony) - accidentally starts a flame war that will lead to him losing his job.
(20) Critics of wind power peddle the same old myths about investment in new energy sources adding to families' fuel bills , preferring to pick a fight with people concerned about the environment, than stand up to vested interests in the energy industry, for the hard-pressed families and pensioners being ripped off by the energy giants.
Fallax
Definition:
(n.) Cavillation; a caviling.
Example Sentences:
(1) Contrary to a previous report, we show that the actin-encoding molecule of O. fallax also codes for a polypeptide 374 amino acids long.
(2) As compared to control preparations (like-wise treated with non-immune serum), significant but partial reversion of PLF inhibition was observed in all cases except when bacteria had been incubated with M. fallax antiserum (rapidly growing, non-pathogenic species).
(3) We studied the morphological, histochemical and ultrastructural aspects of the hypothalamic-pituitary system in the Alosa fallax nilotica.
(4) Heteropolar doublets of the hypotrichous ciliate Oxytricha fallax can encyst, as can monster cells containing multiple copies of at least part of the ciliature.
(5) Sequence comparison with a closely related species, O. fallax, shows an 87% sequence similarity in the coding regions and an almost total lack of similarity in the noncoding regions of the molecules.
(6) Two species or even two genus of Dermaptera can be parasitized by the same Gregarine; c) The life-cycle, from ingested sporocysts to new sporocysts, is from 13 to 16 days for Gragarina ovata (species with large sporocysts) and from 11 to 13 days for Gregarian fallax (species with small sporocysts.
(7) In 1986 D. fallax, D. similis and D. suecicus constituted significant proportions of the fauna in the polluted lake.
(8) From the product of abundance and infection rate, the most prevalent rodent hosts of plague appeared to be R. rattus, Otomys angoniensis Wroughton, P. natalensis and Pelomys fallax (Peters).
(9) DNA in the macronuclei of Oxytricha fallax, as in other hypotrichous ciliate protozoa, exists as small, achromosomal molecules rather than in chromosomes.
(10) Hypotrichous ciliated protozoa, such as Oxytricha fallax, produce tiny chromosomes during generation of the transcriptionally active macronucleus.
(11) Such reactions could be completely eliminated by absorption with C. beijerinckii, C. fallax and C. tetanomorphum.
(12) The cytostome in exoerythrocytic stages of P. fallax has been observed only in merozoites and does not seem to play the same role in the feeding mechanism.
(13) When applied to M3-mycolic acids from Mycobacterium fallax, this method allows for the characterization of a new tri-unsaturated mycolic acid, which has the middle and the remote double bonds separated by two methylene groups.
(14) fallax, and Couma utilis) were used intensively during the three seasons covered by the study period.
(15) We report studies on O. fallax DNA using physicochemical procedures and nucleic acid hybridization.
(16) We, therefore, conclude that for at least some of the ciliary and basal body proteins of Oxytricha fallax, AZM morphological conservation is essentially equivalent to molecular conservation.
(17) Macronuclear chromosomes in Oxytricha fallax, a hypotrichous ciliate, are very short.
(18) Wandering phagocytes in tissue cultures were attracted to the exoerythrocytic stages, both intracellular and extracellular, of Plasmodium fallax.
(19) There are 380 species belonging to 129 families and 322 genus, among which notably Embelia parviflora, Malus doumeri, Panax notoginseng, Polygala fallax, etc.
(20) In contrast, three rapidly growing non-pathogenic species (M. smegmatis, M. phlei and M. fallax) presented a low ETZ frequency after phagocytosis and were rapidly degraded.